The special panel presided over by judge Vesna Kovačević postponed the start of the trial of the defendants for cocaine smuggling, an operation known in the public as "Florida", to May 27 in the High Court in Podgorica.
The court stated that the findings and opinion of the expert psychiatrist were not made in order to assess the defendant's ability to attend the trials.
Judge Vesna Kovačević fined expert witness Željko Golubović 300 euros for not submitting a report.
The Special State Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against a 27-member criminal organization formed by Italian citizen Luciano Camporesi, for smuggling cocaine from South America to Europe.
Filip Radulović from Podgorica, Slavko Milić, Marija Radulović from Podgorica, Dejan Golubović from Kotor, Nebojša Pejović, Boško Vujović, Jovan Ercegović, Nikola Grgurović from Danilovgrad and Radislav Vojičić are accused of membership in this criminal organization.
Italians Stefan Angoti, Damjan Vukašinović, Serbian citizens Stefan Martinović, Aleksandar Dimitrijević whose previous name was Saša Jeremić, Ilija Andrić from Herceg Novi, Jovan Vlahović from Podgorica and Muzafer Lukač from Baran are accused and accused.
Apart from them, Željko Dragišić, Andrija Mugoša, Dragoljub Živković, Mihailo Đorđević, Vasko Radonjić, Tripo Biskupović, Nikola Markić, Vidoje Latković, Nikola Martinović, Zoran Gojković and Dragan Mašanović are also on the indictment, who are serving multi-year prison terms in Aruba since were arrested by the local authorities in February 2020 on the ship "Aressa" with which they tried to smuggle 5,1 tons of cocaine into Europe.
The defendants are accused of participating in the smuggling of large quantities of cocaine by sea from the Atlantic to Europe within a criminal organization with clearly defined roles and tasks.
"The activities of the competent authorities of Montenegro and their international partners resulted in the discovery and seizure of 592,9 kilograms of cocaine on the ship 'Yemeya', at the end of May 2019, in the port of Horta, in Portugal, and 411 kilograms of cocaine on board in the territorial waters of the Ivory Coast and 5.108,26 kilograms of cocaine, on the ship 'Aressa', during February 2020," the special prosecutor's office stated earlier.
According to the indictment, the criminal organization formed by Camporesi operated from 2017 to 2020 in Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Spain (Balearic Islands - Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca, Cape Verde Cabo Verde Sao Vicente, Canary Islands, Tenerife), and on the territory of the Caribbean Islands (Aruba, Saba, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Eustatius, St. Martin), Portugal, the Azores Islands in the Atlantic and the territorial waters of the Ivory Coast.
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